Wassenberg,E, The Renewed German Florus. With Animadversions, Additions, and Cor…
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Wassenberg,E,

The Renewed German Florus. With Animadversions, Additions, and Corrections ... and continued till Anno 1647. Decorated with more copper pieces than in the Franckfurt one. Amsterdam, Elzevier 1647. 16°. With copper title and 63 full-page. portrait engravings in the text, 3 fol., 729 (2) pp. (One joint torn and the other partly torn). Faber du Faur 1190: "one of Grimmeishausen's important sources". - Seebaß 1, 1072 (incpl. ex.). - Ausst.-Kat. Grimmelshausen u. s. Zeit No. 4 (showed only the Frankfurt edition of the same year with the same contents): "Grimmelshausen's most important source and partly literally evaluated by him. Most reliable in the edition of 1647 with the corrections by Jod. Maximilian, Count of Gronsfeld". - Schiller also used this book for "Wallenstein". - One of the few German-language Elzevir editions, according to willems 1055 u. Berghman 1791 of greatest rarity: "L'édition est tres rare. Chr. Gryphe la regarde comme un trasor" (Willems). - The text copper belonging to p. 286 unprinted, the page left blank, only outlines of the border can be recognized quite schach (Willems counts also only 62 coppers). - Browned. - From the Bibl. v. Friedrich Gundolf.

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